Running time

The bumpers between the acts are generally 10 seconds from fade in to the "End of Act" bumper to the end of audio before the commercial, a 10 second still without audio, then cut to the next act bumper. This would play with the theme for around 10 seconds. Accordingly, with the episodes being in 3 acts, the running time of the action is approximately a minute less than listed above, minus the opening and closing credits (normally 0'16", with a 2" fade, and anywhere from 0'41" to 1'20", hard cut or 1" fade or mix, respectively).

Transport

Minutiæ

The prop is clearly hand-drawn, if you look closely, with the fine print in the letterhead just being lines across the paper.

3:40 - the camera shakes as it zooms in for the MCU of Meyer begging with Legros to stay in the cabin

Catherine Woodville had appeared as Dr Keel's doomed fiancée, Peggy, in the very first episode, Hot Snow, back in 1961 and was briefly married to Patrick Macnee.

13:07 - a thread appears on screen in the bottom righthand corner, it remains there until the end of the episode.

19:50 - Steed recognises that Meyer had been poisoned, telling Cathy that the police think it's heart attack but the dilation of the pupils and blue lips (cyanosis) suggest a hexobarbitone.

20:30 - When Cathy quips "How did the French get left out?" Steed laughs and says they gave him his only sticky moment, except that the 'dim-witted official' (Leclerc) didn't realise the significance of his telegram. When Cathy says she isn't surprised when it said he couldn't meet him and there he is, large as life, Steed defensively says it was in code. "I should get yourself a new code book", she replies.

25:17 - Cathy's clearly had training, when she describes searching Meyer's case she mentions no false compartments, checking between the pages of books, and even squeezing out the toothpaste tube, checking the fountain pen and emptying all the containers.

25:18 - the profile CU of Cathy starts completely out of focus.

27:02 - That's some code book! Shanghai is code for the new Chinese rocket being tested in the Gobi desert, and 'fruit juice' is its fuel.

39:14 - Pierre breaks the "fourth wall" and addresses an aside direct to the camera.

45:43 - we see Janine's dead body under Jacques' bed.

49:55 - the cameraman loses focus as Meyer returns to Manning's side.

There's picture distortion at 2:27 and 13:44, and most of the VTR inserts (see above) end with a fade to live recording; there's often visual interference in the picture during the fade (6:50, 10:56, 20:58, 22:28, 23:38).

Times are from the re-mastered 2009 Optimum Releasing DVD set, any times in brackets are from the previously released DVD sets which had frames with interference or banding deleted, resulting in shorter running times.